Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Decalcomania and acrylic medium on paper
18 × 24 inches
Enlarged and stripped of their labels, these in-progress decal on acrylic panel remakes of 1970s puffy stickers of the US states are faithful transcriptions of the originals, translated into another scale and material register. Each original was assigned an arbitrary color: Utah is purple, Kansas is orange. Chromatic randomness as echo of the often inscrutable quality of border lines. What was once a map becomes a set of forms—each one bounded, self-contained, and slightly irregular, as if remembered rather than drawn. These states shed their geography and become something closer to states of being: presences, characters, moods. The histories compressed into their boundaries remain—rivers, surveyor's lines, the geometry of expansion and conquest, the abstract record of how a continent was partitioned and divided.